Sunday, 9 August 2015

Word of the Day: The Company of Holy Mad People

Culled and revised jottings
from a sermon from Dr. D.K Olukoya. General Overseer of the Mountain of fire
and Miracles Ministries.

Sermon Date: Sunday,
9th August, 2015

@ MFM Headquarters,
Lagos.

The Company of Holy
Mad People

There is
a group of people that the world finds strange but heaven respects; this group
of people is able to identify the ways and mysterious ways of God. Heaven has
an expectation that all men should live according to the divine plan; for
anyone to live in this divine plan, they will live outside the expectations of
this world thereby the people of the world will find them strange and see this
people as mad men; These are the company of Holy Mad People.

The Company of Holy Mad People

"And
when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers
of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;" {Acts
17:6}

This is
the record about the apostles; these are men that have turned the world upside
down for Christ.

This
should be the desired accusation that should be against every Christian; to
turn the world upside down fie Christ

"And
many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hear ye him?"{John
10:20}

This is
also a record about Jesus Christ our lord; they called Jesus a mad man. This is
because; Jesus was saying some things that are not normal.

The truth
is that, in the spirit realm, there is no normalcy ; things are not the normal
way we see it.

Do you desire to be like Jesus?
Or do you want to flow generally with the things of the world.

If you
have not been called a fanatics or an unreasonable person, it is very unlikely
that you are like Jesus.

"And
as he thus spake for himself, Festus said with a loud voice, Paul, thou art
beside thyself; much
learning doth make thee mad."
{Acts 26:24}

Jesus was
not the only one that was addressed as a mad man; Paul also was referred to as a mad man because, his sayings are not
normal, his attitude, lifestyles, relationship are not normal.

vJesus was doing things that were not normal, healing on the Sabbath
day, eating with the sinners, talking hard against the hypocrite and Pharisees.

vThe Jesus that the demons even acknowledged, but the
theologians rejected him.

vJesus spoke to the water, tree, demon, dead body, sickness; these
are the signs of holy madness.

vJesus was a person that saw his family and was said those are
not his family but them that do the will of his father; madness.

vJesus used saliva for healing.

vJesus walked across the sea.

vJesus assaulted traders, selling in the temple.

vEven his friends and family did not see Jesus as somebody that
is normal.

In the days of now, there are more of
entertainers in the church, you have men pleasers.

ØElijah called down fire and also called down water, this is strange.

Illustration Story

There was
sister that gave this testimony. She was at the age of 15 years when her father
died. When rich father died , the lawyer read the will that the father will
about 10 houses to this lady.

The last thing this woman remembered was that the
family members called her one night to make some incisions on her head. After
this incision her memory about the houses that was willed to her vanished and
she was living her life as a pauper.

It was
until she came for prayers and began to pray some mad prayers that her memory
opened; by then she was 47 years of age. The woman has been living for 32 years
without knowing who she was and she was living her live in penury.

When her
memory opened, she called for a family meeting and they were shocked. She was
able to collect all her inheritance even though some have been sold.

When she
wanted to show her appreciation to God; she wrote a big cheque to the church
but the bank did not honor this cheque. The woman called the bank manager and
the manager said to her: “are you mad ? How can you give this kind of big money
to a church, you can give little amount of money to the church not big amount
like this” She woman upset and told them ; where were they when they wiped her
memory ; where were they when they took away her inheritance; She preferred to
be referred to as a mad person.

Unfortunately, many people and churches are not growing but they
are fat.

üYou see addition but not growth.

üYou see millions of babies and the preachers keep feeding them
milk; they cannot grow.

üThere are baby ushers, members, ministers, Pastors.

You
need to look unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith not another human
being

By your kind of prayers; we can know whether you are babies or
matured Christian.

Babies ask;

üGood give me money.

üGive me car.

üGive me Job.

üGive me ……

Matured Christians ask;

üFather, empower me to love.

üGive me the Power of the holy ghost

üIncrease my spiritual life.

In our days of today; the average Christian has;

·No power of God.

·Does not evangelize.

·Study the Bible.

·Does not do serious
spiritual exercise.

You need to determine to represent Christ;
Determine to make impact for Christ.

"The
days of visitation are come, the days of recompense are come; Israel shall know
it: the prophet is a
fool, the spiritual
man is mad, for the multitude of thine iniquity, and the great
hatred." {Hosea 9:7}

By the logic
of men and his thinking faculty, the activities of the spiritual man are
addressed as foolishness and madness.

Example:

oMoses pointed a staff to
the sea when the Israelites are being pursued.

oNaaman was asked to bath
in river to get healing.

oThe shouting of hallelujah
to bring down Jericho.

If you walk according to God’s plan, you
will take steps that people will think you are mad

In the history of
this world; no great man is being understood by his generation.

All the
men in the scriptures were mad people

vShedrach Meshach and
Abednego were mad men. They refuse to bow to
the image even at the point of brutal destruction. They said they prefer
to burn than to bow.

vA little bit of
insanity is needed, to make any progress in life.

Whether
it is race, exam, competition or major project in life.

In this kind of world we live in now;
unless we are able to catch serious fire and show some holy insanity, it will
be difficult to make headway.

What Do You need to
do

ØSurrender your life to Jesus.

ØRepent from every known sin.

ØJoin the company of holy mad people.

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